Ten hours after the newspaper was released, two copies of the newspaper were placed on the imperial desk of the Ming Dynasty emperor.
In the past two days, Dayang Group's newspapers have become thicker again, with both issues having as many as 60 pages!
Yesterday's newspaper mainly introduced the new financial system, changes in Luzhou Bank, etc.
Today's newspaper mainly introduces the properties of various spiritual materials - when new spiritual materials come out, others must know the properties of the new spiritual materials, etc.
But what amazed the emperor of the Ming Dynasty even more was that the straight-line distance between here and the Ocean Group was 150,000 kilometers, but this time it only took nine hours for the fighter jets to deliver the newspaper from the Ocean Group here.
But it was said that in the auction more than a month ago, the Ming Dynasty had obtained a total of one aircraft carrier, eight fighter jets, and 15 mechas.
In addition, 50 propeller aircraft were purchased from Ocean Group. Of course, they were purchased with brand-new technology.
For more than a month, the aircraft carrier has not returned, but is undergoing training at Ocean Group. According to the plan, it will set sail in the next two days.
But today, because the two consecutive newspapers of Dayang Group are very important, the fighter pilots who have just completed training will be given a 'practical training' if they can't.
The result was shocking. It took nine hours to run from Dayang Group to the Ming Dynasty Imperial Capital.
"The world...is a bit small!" The Emperor sighed with emotion, then opened the newspaper and started browsing. However, the more he read, the more shocked he became.
"Fifty billion high-grade spiritual stones..." The emperor's heart trembled.
Money is not everything, but...most of the time, this sentence can be ignored.
At least in the emperor's opinion, the operation of the country cannot be separated from money. This is the lubricant of the empire!
The four major elements of spiritual practice: wealth is the dharma ground, and wealth is the first!
Compared to the sentence "Money is not everything", the emperor prefers another sentence: All the prosperity in the world is for profit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit!
And this "profit" is 90% wealth and money.
Yes, we all understand that money is not everything, but farmers cultivate the land, businessmen run around, and officials are corrupt, isn’t it just for money?
Before the development of industry, all the taxes and other taxes in the Ming Dynasty were only calculated on the books, which was equivalent to five billion high-grade spiritual stones.
This five billion is the total, a book number. But in the end, what was finally collected in the imperial capital was less than 1.5 billion.
This 1.5 billion also needs to be used to train experts, the army, official salaries, etc. In the end, the treasury will be able to retain 50 million, even if it is a good harvest year. Sometimes it will be repaid.
In addition, the wealth generated from national taxes will not be uniformly high-grade spiritual stones, but mixed with medium-grade spiritual stones and low-grade spiritual stones.
The wealth of 50 billion high-grade spiritual stones is enough to serve as the lubricant of the entire known world.
Such wealth is enough to move the entire world.
What is Dayang Group still going to do?
The emperor spent three hours carefully reading the newspaper, and finally summoned the minister, senior executives and think tanks to discuss it.
However, after a long discussion, we still couldn't get to the point. But everyone knows at least one thing: Dayang Group is not doing charity work.
Although Dayang Group has a charity relief department, it does not represent the entire Dayang Group.
The discussion reached no conclusion for a long time, but Shangshu Ling said at the end of the discussion: "Your Majesty, Green Boat Bank of Ocean Group has applied to open more branches in our country."
The emperor thought for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"
"We are not sure about Dayang Group's current actions. Moreover, Green Boat Bank's sudden injection of 50 billion high-grade spiritual stones is definitely not a waste of time.
Therefore, I think this application should be suppressed. Let’s first look at other people’s situations, and also look at Dayang Group’s operations, etc.”
This was a good idea, but late that night, and it was only evening at Dayang Group, Dayang Group sent an ultimatum to the Ming Dynasty:
So what, your aircraft carrier team is about to set sail, and you haven’t sent the money yet!
But this time, the Ming Dynasty was cruel and spent more than 3.2 billion high-grade spiritual stones at the Dayang Group's auction. It directly built a complete aircraft carrier fleet:
One aircraft carrier, 15 mechas, eight fighter jets, fifty propeller aircraft, one Arctic-class battleship with a displacement of 34,000 tons, two Zhenyuan-class battleships with a displacement of 25,000 tons, and seven Iron Duke-class battleships with a displacement of 13,000 tons;
There are also five Seolang-class cruisers with a displacement of 14,000 tons.
In addition to the training expenses and ammunition consumption expenses of the Ocean Group, as well as the purchased torpedoes, artillery shells, and even cruise missiles, the total cost is more than 3.2 billion!
This is because Dayang Group did not charge tariffs for this auction. If the tariffs are calculated according to normal conditions, which is one-tenth of the tax, a tariff of 320 million will still be paid.
But even 3.2 billion high-grade spiritual stones were enough for the Ming Dynasty.
The size of a spiritual stone is one inch. The side length of three spiritual stones is about 10 centimeters. One cubic meter is 27,000 pieces.
3.2 billion high-grade spiritual stones is 118,518 cubic meters!
According to the density of spirit stone, it is about 3.5g/cm3, so the approximate weight of 118518 is 415,000 tons!
In this transaction, Dayang Group only wants top-grade spiritual stones.
Of course, if you don’t have enough high-grade spiritual stones, you can exchange them for mid-grade spiritual stones.
However, the exchange ratio is no longer 1:100, but 1:110! The price has increased!
The increased part is used as 'liquidated damages' - it was agreed during the auction that it is a high-grade spiritual stone and is tax-free. Now if you give me a medium-grade spiritual stone or even a low-grade spiritual stone, you will have to pay customs duties.
Okay, that's a long way off. In short, Dayang Group has made a statement - if you want to take away the aircraft carrier, you have to send the money over. To the Dayang Group headquarters!
According to the agreement before the auction, there was a grace period of up to four months; now more than a month has passed.
Hurry up, it will take at least two months for your Ming Dynasty ships to sail to the Ocean Group!
If the agreed time is exceeded, interest will be calculated.
The interest execution standard is calculated according to the war loan, with a daily interest rate of 5/10,000, and the interest is compounded!
With a wealth of 3.2 billion high-grade spiritual stones, if you are late one day, you will have to pay 1.6 million high-grade spiritual stones, and you will have to pay 1.6008 million the next day!
In short, after receiving this notice from Dayang Group, the top management of the Ming Dynasty frowned a little.
Three hours ago they temporarily suppressed the expansion application of Dayang Group-Lvzhou Bank, and three hours later Dayang Group called for debt.
Urgent!
It is not easy to transport 415,000 tons of spiritual stones. Including packing, labor, etc., a "total cargo displacement" of at least 600,000 tons must be prepared.
In addition, there will be battleships and masters following along the way.
If you want to send these spiritual stones to Dayang Group, the cost will be at least tens of millions!
The steel warships sold by Dayang Group generally have an expansion space of twice the total displacement; any larger the cost will be higher.
As for commercial ships, there is almost no room for expansion - the cost is too high, and the gains outweigh the losses for commercial ships.
By rough calculation, if the Ming Dynasty used all warships for transportation, it would need to dispatch half of the country's warships - but now many warships are colonizing the south.
In this case, it can only be transported by merchant ships and escorted by warships.
The cost was being calculated here, and the minister next to the emperor said: "Liu Shangshu, can't Oasis Bank of Ocean Group withdraw deposits? Can't we just hand over the spirit stones directly to the branch of Oasis Bank here?"
Shangshu Ling Liu Cong shook his head with a wry smile, "According to the auction rules, our money has to be sent to the Dayang Group headquarters. But if the Lingshi is transferred through Luzhou Bank, Luzhou Bank will charge a 1% handling fee.
Shipping fee etc.
In other words, we have to pay Dayang Group 32 million high-grade spiritual stones."
When the minister heard this, he immediately expressed angrily: "Damnable Dayang Group!"
"Yeah, damn it!" Shangshu Ling sighed, then shook his head, "Unfortunately, we can only follow the rules of Dayang Group."
It’s very helpless, but I don’t have to do it anyway.
Soon all the spiritual stones were loaded and the ship set sail.
Since we are going to Dayang Group and the distance is so far, the fleet must be huge. There are not only those transporting spiritual stones, but also many merchant ships doing trade.
Merchant ships sail slowly, the sea routes along the way are tortuous, and crises are unpredictable. The voyage is expected to take 65 days, which is still an ideal situation.
And now the remaining time is only 80 days. Time is very tight. Moreover, there is an extra three days of delay in transporting and loading the spiritual stones.
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While the Ming Dynasty was angrily cursing, other holy places were also busy preparing spiritual stones.
The previous auction was too amazing, so Dayang Group allowed everyone to prepare spiritual stones later.
But now, all the holy places are a little stunned when they see the two big actions of Dayang Group in succession: it seems that Dayang Group is going to cause trouble, and it is not a trivial matter!
And just when everyone was busy, feeling sorry for the spiritual stones, and studying Green Boat Bank and new spiritual materials, another news came from Dayang Group:
The first batch of brand-new spiritual materials will be on the market in half a month and will be sold to the public. The prices will be clearly marked, there will be no bidding, first come first served.
Half a month later, August arrived, just in time to go on sale before August 15th.
August 15th is the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also the beginning of the harvest season. It is also a very important festival in this world. It is also very painstaking to rush to the market at this time.
However, the bigger move of Dayang Group is not simply the sales of spiritual materials. It is... aviation!
To be precise, it’s civil aviation!
After a period of silence, Dayang Group finally unveiled its first civil aviation aircraft. Of course, it is also supersonic.
In this spiritual world, there is no market for subsonic aircraft.
The first civil aviation aircraft was named: Tuanyuan No.1.
Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival, naming a new civil aviation aircraft after "Reunion" is quite original.
The plane hasn't even started its public test flight yet, but the ads have already gone out.
Flying home for reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival, flying above the aura layer, safe and worry-free;
Feel life above the aura layer and enjoy the freedom like a bird;
Or go to the aura layer to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and experience a different kind of reunion...
In short, all kinds of advertisements immediately flooded every corner of the world.
Perhaps it can be said now that a new era has finally arrived.
But more people are still waiting, waiting for the first operation of civil aviation aircraft.